On top of that, if you buy a Chinese car, you have no guarantees about how long replacement parts will be available.

My voron2.4 is a real workhorse. Once i changed my head to use a orbiter v2, 99% of my problems disapeared.

Nope, asml machines are of such complexity that no sane country/company would try to reverse engineer it.

But China isn’t driven by conventional economics nor honest trade. They want everyone else to become dependent on them as a way to get power and soft colonise others.

Selling euv to China will let them reverse engineer it and put a state sponsored competitor on the market within 5 years.

Frankly if Europe really meant business they’d put a heavy export tariff on it, so the chip companies have to produce in Europe.